Travelers to Inchon International beware
08/18/2007 @ 6:00 am
If you are planing a trip to Korea any time soon, beware. Gangs at Inchon International Airport are preying on unknowing foreigners by pulling the old inflated taxi fair scam.
These gangs, called “bonbang,” hung out in front of Gates E and F (when foreign flights came in) looking for foreigners, whom they’d charge three to four times the normal rates.
Read all about it at The Marmot.
If you are traveling to Korea from Japan do not take a taxi. Take either the limo bus or the train. The bus is much cheaper than dealing with the taxi cabs and more comfortable.
The train is also quite good but so far the track only takes you to Kimpo and than you have to transfer to the subway line. Within the next year the train line will be complete and will take travelers to downtown Seoul.
August 18th, 2007 at 7:27 amGI Korea: is that only applicable to traveller’s incoming from Japan? how about commuter’s from other parts of the planet….(lets say Hellsinki or Burlin)..(?).
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August 18th, 2007 at 10:25 am“If you are traveling to Korea from Japan do not take a taxi” (GI Korea).
how do you catch a cab from tokyo to seoul ?.
August 18th, 2007 at 3:00 pmSo funny. I was going to fly back to the US via Korea recently, and my family freaked out, convinced that the Korean airline would “lose” my seat, forcing me to stay in Seoul and not releasing me until I had shopped enough to satisfy them. I thought they were crazy, but I still took a direct flight home.
August 20th, 2007 at 2:02 amThis is apparently a common scam in the Philippines too (and probably lots of places): “Taxi drivers, if they suspect a person has just arrived from abroad, may well try to charge three six or ten times above the proper fare, so find out beforehand how much it should cost to get wherever you’re going.”
But that’s nothing compared to the train. This has got to make foreign gangsters making off with Hachiko almost minor in comparison: “There is a train service but it has been sadly neglected. An accident in late 2004 may have been caused by thieves unscrewing the rails and selling them as scrap metal.”
August 20th, 2007 at 7:41 am